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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

TL;DR

- Mangal Pandey was a sepoy of the British East India Company's 34th Bengal Native Infantry whose mutiny at Barrackpore on 29 March 1857 prefigured the Revolt of 1857.
- Why is Mangal Pandey associated with the start of the Revolt of 1857 when the main uprising began at Meerut?
- What was the immediate trigger behind Mangal Pandey's mutiny?
- What happened to Mangal Pandey and his regiment after the incident?
- How should a UPSC aspirant distinguish Mangal Pandey from the broader causes of 1857?

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## Timeline

1. 29 March 1857

   Mangal Pandey was a sepoy of the British East India Company's 34th Bengal Native Infantry whose mutiny at Barrackpore on prefigured the Revolt of 1857.

2. 10 May 1857

   For aspirants preparing the UPSC General Studies Paper I syllabus on modern Indian history, Pandey functions as the conventional point of departure for the c…

3. 8 April 1857

   He was court-martialled and hanged on , ahead of the originally scheduled date because the authorities feared the spread of unrest.

4. 21 April 1857

   Ishwari Prasad was executed on , and the 34th Bengal Native Infantry was disbanded in May 1857 as a collective punishment, a measure that arguably radicalise…

5. 1 November 1858

   The administrative response was governed by Governor-General Lord Canning, whose tenure spanned the rebellion and its suppression and culminated in the trans…

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In 1984 the Government of India issued a commemorative postage stamp honouring Mangal Pandey, formally inscribing the Barrackpore sepoy of 29 March 1857 into the official nationalist memory of the freedom struggle.

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